The great AI culture debate - the art of the artificial
We use artificial intelligence every day, and the possibilities in AI are constantly evolving. Artificial intelligence can now create images, text and music almost as good as humans. Will the art and culture of the future be created by machines and not by humans?
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ChatGPT's inability to fact-check may not be a disadvantage if AI is the bard of our time rather than an encyclopaedia or a journalist. But what good are artists, writers and musicians if artificial intelligence can create images, texts, stories and music of such high quality? What does it mean for Norwegian culture that AI models are trained on English-language data sets?
Who owns an AI-generated artwork: the technologists who trained the AI model or the people who created the images and texts the model was trained on? Will we read AI-generated novels? Should an AI model be eligible for an artist's grant? Or should we think of the use of AI in art and culture more as a tool, not so different from a word processor or a synthesiser? Perhaps it is the interaction between us humans and the AI that creates new and valuable art?
Professor at the University of Bergen, Jill Walker Rettberg will give us an introduction to the topic, introduce us to the challenges, and show current examples. She will also be the academic side-kick in the subsequent panel discussion.
The event is part of the main programme during Arendalsuka 2023. (Norwegian web page)